Word: raw
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Some farmers rallied to Carter's cause. One was Ronald Johnson, 41, who farms 1,100 acres in Eureka,Ill. Sitting in his kitchen, with a view over his winter brown fields, Johnson declared: "All that people like the Russians understand is raw, naked power. I just hope the American farmer doesn't have to be the goat." Most Eureka farmers have not yet sold 75% of their 1979 crops. But Johnson was luckier than his neighbors: he contracted to sell his record 1979 harvest of corn and soybeans even before the seed was in the ground, when prices were...
...away from the edge of bankruptcy that it faced last year, when 24 predominantly Western nations promised it $1.5 billion in emergency assistance. Since then inflation has soared to an annual rate close to 100%, unemployment continues to hover stubbornly around 20% and industry, because of oil and other raw material shortages, is running at less than 50% capacity...
...Their direct effect is on spending, on orders and sales facing producers, in turn, is to cut back production and lay-off people quickly and to cut prices only very gradually. Why? Because their costs keep going up. Why do their costs keep going up? Because wages (and also raw material prices) Keep going up. Why do wages keep going up with increased unemployment, slack labor markets? That is where the mystery lies...
...have a weak heart, has suffered from a form of undulant fever and can work for only a few hours a day. Still he performs the devout Muslim's daily ritual of prayer without visible effort. He subsists on a sparse diet of rice, bean curd, yogurt and raw onions, supplemented now and then by a slice of melon or a bit of mutton. There are some signs that power has begun to intoxicate him. He has admitted enjoying the adulation of the crowds, and he took personal command of the government, though he had originally said he would...